Monolithism is an ancient culture of the north eastern region of India. Nagaland is known for its traditional monolithic culture and different types of monolithic internments are found prevalent in the socio-cultural life of people in Nagaland. Categorically, the north east Indian monoliths are classified as Austro-Asiatic. Typologically, however, the north east Indian monoliths are varied in forms and character. There exists monolithic site on the bank of the Dhansiri in Purna bazar, covering a vast area, within Dimapur township in Nagaland. The term “Dimapur” is a combination of three Kachari terms ‘di’ meaning river or water, ‘ma’ meaning great or mother, and ‘pur’ meaning a city. Thus Dimapur means the ‘city or pur built on the bank of the river ‘Dima”- the other name for river Dhansiri given by the Kacharis.The Kacharis built up a kingdom in the Dhansiri valley, and Dimapur was the capital of their kingdom during the mediaeval period. The Ahoms occupied Dimapur from the Kacharis in 1536 and called it ‘che-din-che –pin’ i.e. brick built town. This suggest that the monolithic site of Dimapur was not the capital , of the kingdom of the Kacharis but possibly was located in some other neighboring locality. Remarkably, monolithism as a cultural internment of stone columns, is normally not found associated with other settlements of the Kacharis in the north eastern region of India. Besides, the epigraphical records exposed in the Dhansiri valley indicate that the Kacharis settled in this valley was long back Hinduised and Dimapur was earlier known as Lakhindrapur the city of the Goddess of the wealth. The antiquity of the Kachari kingdom built by the Kacharis in the Dhansiri valley has been confirmed to be very ancient and goes back to CE 400-500, if not earlier. (HND) Besides, in religion, the Kacharis are known to be worshipper of Lord Siva as their supreme God ‘Siva-Brai’ - worshipped in the form of ‘Bathou’ in the symbol of ‘Siju’-a vegetation (euphoria) of five ridge which exudes milk-like juice-the symbol of fertility and production. Source :- Wikipedia This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of 50, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM / SR 1080i High Definition, Alexa, SR, XDCAM and 4K. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Please subscribe to our channel wildfilmsindia on Youtube for a steady stream of videos from across India. Also, visit and enjoy your journey across India at www.clipahoy.com , India's first video-based social networking experience! Reach us at rupindang @ gmail . com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com

• published: 02 Jan 2015
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